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The annoying thing about commercial smart home gear is its lack of interoperability. HomeAssistant is very flexible though, and it’s easy to use all kinds of gear—even stuff you bodge …read more Continue reading Interfacing Old Burglar Alarm Sensors Into HomeAssistant
You know the feeling of having just created a perfect setup for your hacker lab? Sometimes, there’s just this missing piece in the puzzle that requires you to do a …read more Continue reading Interfacing a Cheap HDMI Switch With Home Assistant
PiggyMeter is a wonderful example of a device that you never knew you needed – simple, elegant, easy to build, and accompanied by amazing documentation. It’s a snap-on interface for …read more Continue reading Simple Optical Meter Sets New Standards For Documentation
For many, the voice assistants are helpful listeners. Just shout to the void, and a timer will be set, or Led Zepplin will start playing. For some, the lack of …read more Continue reading Bringing The Voice Assistant Home
If you build your own devices or hack on devices that someone else has built, you know the feeling of opening a serial terminal and seeing a stream of sensor …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: [Alex Whittemore] On Treating Your Sensor Data Well
[Ovidiu] cares for their house plants, trying to dial in the perfect soil humidity and light levels. However, many cheap monitors tend to rust after a few weeks of sitting …read more Continue reading 2023 Hackaday Prize: A Reusable Plant Monitor
Measuring local rainfall has real practical uses, especially in agriculture, but most of us will have to admit that it’s at least partly about drawing cool graphs on a screen. …read more Continue reading DIY 3D Printed Rain Gauge Connects To Home Assistant
Integrating non-smart devices into your home automation system can be a cumbersome process, involving the wiring of multiple modules. However, [Pricelesstoolkit] has created the ESPClicker – a compact, ESP8266-based module …read more Continue reading ESPClicker – An Elegant Solution for Integrating Dumb Devices into Home Assistant
While fixed sensors, relays, and cameras can be helpful in monitoring your home, there are still common scenarios you need to physically go and check something. Unfortunately, this is often …read more Continue reading A Guard Bot For Your Home Assistant
nRF24L01+ module fixed about as well as it can be, by adding an appropriate capacitor on the PCB antenna, and a 1.0 uF capacitor across the power pins for good measure.
Good old nRF24L01+ wireless modules are inexpensive and effective. …read more
Continue reading Fixing nRF24L01+ Modules Without Going (Too) Insane